installed Arch Linux but cannot boot

arch-linux boot uefi systemd-boot

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Boot from your bootable USB Arch-linux , mount all your partitions and chroot into the system.

As montioned jasonwryan :

You need to mount your ESP to /boot

First create the efi folder:

mkdir /boot/efi

mount the esp partition

mount /dev/sda1 /boot/efi

Verify your /etc/fstab , the esp mount point need to be added to fstab.

Create a new sub-directory /boot/efi/EFI/arch/

mkdir -p /boot/efi/EFI/arch/

Move /boot/vmlinuz-linux , initramfs-linux.img and initramfs-linux-fallback.img :

cp /boot/vmlinuz-linux /boot/efi/EFI/arch/vmlinuz-linux.efi
cp /boot/initramfs-linux.img /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img /boot/efi/EFI/arch

Run mkinitcpio -p linux then update GRUB:

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

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stdcerr

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

stdcerr almost 2 years
I have installed Arch Linux for the first time, I have attempted to setup my UEFI boot process but must have failed somewhere, on bootup I do see the boot menu with the Arch Linux option but when I select it, I get a message /vmlinuz-linux:Not Found i.e. it can't find the kernel to boot. I've followed the instructions on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide but must have messed up somewhere.

How can I fix this?

partition layout:
```
/dev/sda1 EFI System (512M)
/dev/sda2 Linux fs (244M)
/dev/sda3 Linux fs (1M)
/dev/sda4 Linux fs (465G)
```
/etc/fstab:
```
#/dev/sda4  
UUID=41d8483f-0d29-4234-bf1e-3c55346b5667  /  ext4    rw,realtime,data=unordered 0 1
```
esp was setup in /boot/

edit 1
Oh yeah I can anytime boot from my USB thumb drive for troubleshooting...,

edit2
I see, my /boot/loder/entries/arch.conf looks like:
```
title          Arch Linux
linux          /vmlinuz-linux
initrd         /initramfs-linux.img
options        root=PARTUUID=41d8483f-0d29-4234-bf1e-3c55346b5667 rw
```
but there's no files in my / at all only the directories. Might that be the problem?
- jasonwryan almost 8 years
  
  Where is your kernel and initrd?
- stdcerr almost 8 years
  
  I booted from my thumb drive, mounted my / (/dev/sda4) to /mnt and chrooted to /mnt and a # find / -name "initrd" doesn't return a thing, that's a problem right there, isn't it?
- jasonwryan almost 8 years
  
  Yep... Include details of your partitions etc in your question. And where is your ESP?
- stdcerr almost 8 years
  
  @jasonwryan I revised my question, please see above
- Libre Arch almost 8 years
  
  @cerr Does your /etc/fstab file contain anything else or just that entry for /dev/sda4?
- jasonwryan almost 8 years
  
  You need to mount your ESP to /boot and reinstall linux and then update your arch.conf and /etc/fstab.
- stdcerr almost 8 years
  
  @sixpointzero no, there's nothing else in it
TheInitializer over 7 years

The EFI system partition is not always /dev/sda1. You need to run fdisk -l to know what it is